Julio 16, 2006
What's the Deal with this Blog?
Blogging has taken a backseat to my real job. Caught in the middle of my busiest time of year, in addition to my first summer in my new position, I decided that this would be a good break in action. For two years, I have maintained this blog fairly continuously and it has been a good experience. I continue to write the weekly entry at Global Voices Online and over this summer break I have definitely read a lot more than I have written. With very little free time, I have also neglected the project that I am co-founding, which will be launched soon. However, I doubt that this is the end of the blogging, rather the end of this blog in this form. Soon I will move my blog to another Wordpress site and will be launched next month, which will coincide with another return trip to Bolivia. At this new site, which will most likely retain the name Barrio Flores, I have yet to decide whether to put politics aside. One idea that I have is to review my journals and memory bank over the past six years, which contain many, many experiences in Bolivia, which I wish to preserve. It might be good for me to also write about my experiences as a hyphenated Bolivian (Bolivian-American). However, I would also like to think that there is still room for my opinion about politics in Bolivia and that there needs to be some more balance, because events in Bolivia are not so black and white, not saying that I am any authority or have it all figured out. This is part of the challenge.
Posted by eduardo at Julio 16, 2006 10:34 PM
Comments
I was wondering where you were. Yeah, sometimes blogging takes a back seat to real life. But keep me posted. Ciao!
Posted by: mcentellas at Julio 17, 2006 12:21 PM
Well Eduardo, whatever you do about it I wish you the best of luck in this and your other projects. Thank you for keeping this blog for so long and helping the Bolivian blogosphere grow in so many venues, personally I owe you, Miguel and MABB the motivation for starting my own blog.
good bye,
Posted by: Jonathan at Julio 17, 2006 06:52 PM
I miss your comments--Bolivian, realistic, nonideological, often fun. But take your time--maybe come back some time for another long run. Good work with GVO too. Thank you.
Posted by: John at Julio 19, 2006 05:47 PM
Your blog will be missed. I spent a lot of time reading your comments, especially around the election and afterwards. Im sure you will find many ways to change Bolivia and the world for the better. Good luck with whatever you do.
Posted by: carlos at Julio 20, 2006 12:05 AM